Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

It must be a peace without victory... Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted in humiliation, under duress, at an intolerable sacrifice, and would leave a sting, a resentment, a bitter memory upon which terms of peace would rest, not permanently, but only as upon quicksand. Only a peace between equals can last.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

Man is much more than a 'rational being' and lives more by sympathies and impressions than by conclusions. It darkens his eyes and dries up the wells of his humanity to be forever in search of doctrine. We need wholesome, experiencing na­tures, I dare affirm, much more than we need sound reasoning.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.